Nobel in Chemistry goes to the ribosome. Party at Scripps next year?

So today’s Nobel Prize in chemistry goes to the ribosome, not the antibody.
Who are we to argue?
Under a microscope, within a cell, you’ll find knobby ribosomes studding a maze-like structure just outside the nucleus. (That would be the rough endoplasmic reticulum for you Jeopardy fans.)
Those wacky little knobs act like protein decoder rings for genes.

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Without the ribosome, DNA is just code.

Methinks the ribosome is the ultimate SAT question.
Pick the best choice:

The ribosome is to proteins as the assembly line is to:
A) Cars
B) Workers
C) Detroit
D) Huh?

Yeah, I liked D, too.
Kudos to today’s newest Nobel Laureates, and we hope to see the antibody next year, when we expect the drinks to be on Scripps’ Dr. Lerner.

The 2009 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes to the people who mapped out the three-dimensional structure of the ribosome:
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Senior Scientist and Group Leader at Structural Studies Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, UK
Thomas A. Steitz, Sterling Professor of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry and Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator, both at Yale University, CT
and Ada E. Yonath, Martin S. and Helen Kimmel Professor of Structural Biology and Director of Helen & Milton A. Kimmelman Center for Biomolecular Structure & Assembly, both at Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.

Aside from improving our understanding of basic biology, the trio’s work has made it easier to develop antibiotics. The Nobel Foundation explains why:

Ribosomes exist in all cells in all living organisms, from bacteria to human beings. As no living creature can survive without ribosomes, they are the perfect targets for drugs. Many of today’s antibiotics attack the ribosomes of bacteria, but leave those of humans alone.